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Mail, like almost all Cocoa applications on Mac OS X, offers text completion, which can be invoked by hitting either F5 or Esc. When it was introduced, it offered completions based on the list of words from the mail you were typing. Unfortunately,...

Pashua ist a tool for creating native Aqua dialog windows for Perl, PHP, Tcl, Python, Ruby, Rexx and shell scripts as well as AppleScript. The GUI elements which can be used for such dialogs include text input fields, checkboxes, radiobuttons, popup...

Plain Clip is a tiny Mac OS X application that removes formatting from text which is on the clipboard. It's designed as a faceless application (no GUI), which makes it ideal for triggering it from a hotkey application such as "Spark" or "iKey".What is new...

Exif Untrasher is a tool for rescuing JPEG photos that were deleted from digital cameras' memory cards or memory sticks. Usually it can even be used to recover images from cards that have been formatted.
What is new in this release:
Improved usability...

PipeAlert is a utility that reads data from a Unix pipe and displays it in a regular Aqua window. The usefulness of such an application might not be obvious immediately, but it can be quite handy indeed, especially if used in conjunction with cronjobs. Of...

Problem: You are a BBEdit user and work in a keyboard-oriented way: you have assigned lots of shortcuts to menu items and do as much as possible without even touching the mouse. But still, there are two things you can only reach without the mouse: the...

rtf2txt is a shell utility which reads RTF, HTML, DOC (only on OS X v10.3) and/or plaintext from one or more files, converts it to plaintext, optionally changes its encodings and writes it to STDOUT.What is new in this release: Version 1.3 improves...

Plain Clip Plug is a plugin for Spark (a very nice freeware hotkey application) which removes any formatting from text which is on the clipboard. It is basically identical to Plain Clip, a freeware stand-alone application I wrote for very same purpose. As...

LinkABoo is able to create hyperlinks which point to specific e-mail messages inside Apple's "Mail" application. If you are tired of searching e-mails by sender, date, and subject (which is still tedious, even in times of "Spotlight"), then LinkABoo is...

Taply is a simple soundfile player. Although a lot of similar tools do exist for Mac OS X, I did not know of any which behaves exactly the way I want it to, so I wrote this application. The main difference between Taply and other players lies in the fact...